ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,955, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for indicating to skip PDCCH monitoring and apparatus" was invented by Yifan Xue (Shenzhen, China), Xiaolei Tie (Shanghai), Lixia Xue (Shanghai) and Zhanzhan Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for indicating to skip PDCCH monitoring and an apparatus are provided, to indicate, by using downlink control information, a terminal device to skip PDCCH monitoring. After a network device sends DCI that includes PDCCH skipping indication information to the terminal device, the terminal device determines, based on the PDCCH ski...